Murph's Message

[Napster]

Some examples of Colin Murphy's genius

"Metal fatigue. That is wind, rain, hail and snow and at times the four seasons all in one. That turbulent ride which investigates and stresses the defects. Not the aircraft in flight but the managerial role. Incidentally, in conclusion, the metal does not have brain-power."

"To extemporise or not to extemporise, that is the issue we face today,"

"You, me, we all of us have been forced to breakfast on travesty, lunch on objection and insult, dine on inflicted pressure. High tea we daren't sit still long enough to take and by supper we were still expected to have been victorious."

Any more...?

 

[Napster]

One more about Tony Battersby

"Tony has both physical and technical ability, which can be quite rare in a centre-forward. If a player has only one real strength then it is not too difficult for him to develop it, but when he has both qualities, as Tony does, it can be hard to marry them up. This will obviously stand him in good stead in time, but in the early stages of a career it can be to a player's detriment.

 

[number11]

Not messages, but Im sure I read comments from a former player that he once had us play a training match with an 'imaginery/invisible' ball......

 

[palexander]

Not messages, but Im sure I read comments from a former player that he once had us play a training match with an 'imaginery/invisible' ball......

Not sure thats too uncommon - 'shadow play' is a good training technique to sort out positioning and focus etc without having the distraction of the ball.

@Napster - props for the avatar - used to love Graham Gooch's Cricket on the old C64!

 

[Hawkwell Blue]

When I do stuff for the programme and am using old programmes from his vintage virtually every one contains a classic.

 

[Napster]

On the Collymore Collection he raves about Stan having the "power of Michael Harford". Did anyone else call him Michael Harford?

 

[fbm]

I remember seeing him interviewed on the TV just before the televised Millwall game (3-3 IIRC). Collymore was the subject of transfer speculation and the presenter was asking whether he would still be a Southend player next week. Murphy said something like...

"Who knows? You know what they say in football... when one door opens another one closes... errr... and then another one opens again..."

I didn't hear the rest of the interview as I was too busy laughing at him saying the metaphor the wrong way around and then trying to get out of it. Classic.

 

[londonblue]

I remember seeing him interviewed on the TV just before the televised Millwall game (3-3 IIRC). Collymore was the subject of transfer speculation and the presenter was asking whether he would still be a Southend player next week. Murphy said something like...

"Who knows? You know what they say in football... when one door opens another one closes... errr... and then another one opens again..."

I didn't hear the rest of the interview as I was too busy laughing at him saying the metaphor the wrong way around and then trying to get out of it. Classic.

I remember that one too. I was in hysterics!

 

[DoDTS]

Murphy on Motivation
Blues former manager, Colin Murphy, not the most popular man around Roots Hall, has come up with an unusual way of motivating Devon White (once called Devon and Cornwall by Paul Clarke after he marked him against Bristol Rovers some years ago)

Murphy has waxed lyrical on White's goalscoring for Notts County and advised as follows: "He isn't the brightest, so when he gets the ball he doesn't know what to do with it. Now if he doesn't know and we don't know, how on earth do the opposition defenders know. I remember standing next to him in training and looking into his ear, I swear I could see through the other side"

From Southend v Sheffield United Programme 14th October 1995

DoDtS

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Should this not be in ex-shrimpers, funny as it is??